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Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

By Thomas Hardy
Introduction by Marcelle Clements

By Thomas Hardy
Introduction by Marcelle Clements

By Thomas Hardy
Introduction by Marcelle Clements

By Thomas Hardy
Introduction by Marcelle Clements

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    About Tess of the D’Urbervilles

    An intimate portrait of a woman, one of literature’s most admirable and tragic heroines…

    Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her ne’er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the d’Urbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kin—a journey that will see her victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. Shaped by an acute sense of social injustice and by a vision of human fate cosmic in scope, her story is a singular blending of harsh realism and poignant beauty. Thomas Hardy created in Tess not a standard Victorian heroine but a woman whose intense vitality shines against the bleak backdrop of a dying way of life. The novel shocked contemporary readers with its honesty and remains a timeless commentary on the human condition.

    With an Introduction by Marcelle Clements 

    About Tess of the D’Urbervilles

    An intimate portrait of a woman, one of literature’s most admirable and tragic heroines…

    Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her ne’er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the d’Urbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kin—a journey that will see her victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. Shaped by an acute sense of social injustice and by a vision of human fate cosmic in scope, her story is a singular blending of harsh realism and poignant beauty. Thomas Hardy created in Tess not a standard Victorian heroine but a woman whose intense vitality shines against the bleak backdrop of a dying way of life. The novel shocked contemporary readers with its honesty and remains a timeless commentary on the human condition.

    With an Introduction by Marcelle Clements 

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    About Thomas Hardy

    Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840. In his writing, he immortalized the site of his birth—Egdon Heath, in Dorset, near Dorchester, England. Delicate as a child, he was taught at home by his mother before he attended grammar school…. More about Thomas Hardy

    About Thomas Hardy

    Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840. In his writing, he immortalized the site of his birth—Egdon Heath, in Dorset, near Dorchester, England. Delicate as a child, he was taught at home by his mother before he attended grammar school…. More about Thomas Hardy

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Mass Market Paperback | $6.95
    Published by Signet
    Sep 05, 2006 | 432 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-3/4 | ISBN 9780451530271

    Category: Fiction Classics | Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Signet
    Sep 05, 2006 | 432 Pages | ISBN 9781101141830

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    “What a commonplace genius he has; or a genius for the commonplace—I don’t know which.”—D. H. Lawrence

     

    “The greatest tragic writer among English novelists.”—Virginia Woolf

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